As usual, MDTL(Museum dan Tanah Liat) chose a person whom considered to keep being loyal to his idealism in defending variety, those who are still loyal in having desire of experimental works, have sense of art, creative and fresh.

A natural desire before having a willingness or a need, a passion and also a bravery to express fundamental things in human beings, things which are originally as blessings to every born child.

This is the fourth of MDTL's exhibition colaborated with Jogja Contemporary and it's held in Jogja Contemporary exhibition room. The theme above, like the one in previous paragraphs, may also means humour (and) the future ( tomorrow) in "plesetan" way. Next is humour (happiness) is the final achievement of the future which is started with tumor (pain) first, like a saying with the meaning that we should have sadness first and we will have happiness then.

Is the future humour or a prediction of humour in the future like what has been done in this exhibition? Yes!, at least we have given an understanding that the language of expressions could be just so free (5 classifications) using any media (water colour, pencils, markers, crayon, ink, and acrylic), with any techniques (sketching, drawing, painting in three-dimensional and arranged in instalatively, make "negative " things like failure to be "positive" by repeating "failures" as the process of creation.

That is Ahmadsyalabihifni,Syalabi Ahmad Syalabi or many of his friends call him Syalabi Asya, Paman (Uncle), the initiator of MOM (Museum of Mind), or the familiar pak Bi. There are so many nick names he has because he has so many friends and people who he knows in Surabaya and in Jogja as well, from art and non art communities, from theater to fine art, everywhere he goes, there are so many people knows him.

His cartoon works or humour is a daily story which all of us also have. From simple things, unimportant things to the things which may make us frown our forehead. Do enjoy it. Whether you will find humour and tumor at the same time or the humour can release uncomfortable thing (tumor), or humour is not different from tumor, it depends on how we see it, like a mirror and the reflection of a figure and its problems and also the reflection of its environment.

As usual, MDTL(Museum dan Tanah Liat) chose a person whom considered to keep being loyal to his idealism in defending variety, those who are still loyal in having desire of experimental works, have sense of art, creative and fresh.

A natural desire before having a willingness or a need, a passion and also a bravery to express fundamental things in human beings, things which are originally as blessings to every born child.

This is the fourth of MDTL's exhibition colaborated with Jogja Contemporary and it's held in Jogja Contemporary exhibition room. The theme above, like the one in previous paragraphs, may also means humour (and) the future ( tomorrow) in "plesetan" way. Next is humour (happiness) is the final achievement of the future which is started with tumor (pain) first, like a saying with the meaning that we should have sadness first and we will have happiness then.

Is the future humour or a prediction of humour in the future like what has been done in this exhibition? Yes!, at least we have given an understanding that the language of expressions could be just so free (5 classifications) using any media (water colour, pencils, markers, crayon, ink, and acrylic), with any techniques (sketching, drawing, painting in three-dimensional and arranged in instalatively, make "negative " things like failure to be "positive" by repeating "failures" as the process of creation.

That is Ahmadsyalabihifni,Syalabi Ahmad Syalabi or many of his friends call him Syalabi Asya, Paman (Uncle), the initiator of MOM (Museum of Mind), or the familiar pak Bi. There are so many nick names he has because he has so many friends and people who he knows in Surabaya and in Jogja as well, from art and non art communities, from theater to fine art, everywhere he goes, there are so many people knows him.

His cartoon works or humour is a daily story which all of us also have. From simple things, unimportant things to the things which may make us frown our forehead. Do enjoy it. Whether you will find humour and tumor at the same time or the humour can release uncomfortable thing (tumor), or humour is not different from tumor, it depends on how we see it, like a mirror and the reflection of a figure and its problems and also the reflection of its environment.

JIA PENGB. 1975, Beijing, China Currently works in Beijing, China and Avignon, France

Captivated by the structure and movement of water, Jia Peng strives to project different contents on to the idea of invisibility or emptiness of water—render the invisible within the visible rather than to depict external appearances. Jia Peng's multi-layered paintings display both additive and subtractive marks, as a way to represent the transition of a space, or element in nature, over time.

Image: Invisible No. 30 (2016), acrylic on canvas, 40 x 30 cm

LAILA AZRAB. 1970 Jakarta, Indonesia Currently lives and works in Singapore

The Singapore based Laila Azra, imbues paint with emotional resonance yet at the same time restricts those emotions within the confines of her often indefinable and mysterious forms. She adapts gestural painting method where she uses her hands and body movement to drip, splash, and scrape on a canvas often positioned flat on the floor. This resulted in bold, rhythmic lines and texture-rich artworks, which are characterised by the weaving and interweaving layers of acrylic paint as well as her other chosen mediums.